STEED - Usable end-to-end encryption

Aaron Toponce aaron.toponce at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 22:32:15 CEST 2011


On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:25:04PM +0200, Jerome Baum wrote:
> How about an opportunistic approach? This email should include the
> following header:
>
> OpenPGP: id=C58C753A;
> 	url=https://jeromebaum.com/pgp
>
> The MUA could recognize a header like this one and remember that there's
> a certificate -- so the next email we send will be encrypted. The first
> email couldn't be, but is that worse than no encryption at all?

I like the idea, but how are you setting the header? I see you're using
Thunderbird, and I don't believe that setting that header is part of
Enigmail. Further, it appears your mail isn't signed. Just curious.

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